"Where the twin branches of the Delaware Glide into one, and in their language call'd Chihockcn, or "the meeting of the floods" ;^ the "Willemoc," " and "The Falls of the Mongaup," are also among Street's poetical productions. Shawanoesberg was conferred on a hill in the present town of Mamakating, commemorative of a village of the Shawanoes who settled here in 1694 on invitation of the Minisinks. (Council Minutes, Sept. 14, 1692.) Their council-house is said to have been on the summit of the hill.

Basha's Land and Basha's Kill, familiar local terms in Sullivan County, are claimed to have been so called from a squaw-sachem known as Elizabeth who lived near Westbrookville. "Basha's Land" was one of the boundmarks of the Minisink Patent and Basha's Kill the northeast bound of the Maghaghkemik Patent. Derivation of the name from Elizabeth is not well-sustained.-^ The original was probably an equivalent of Bashaba, an Eastern-Algonquian term for "Sagamore of Sagamores," or ruling sachem or king of a nation. It is met of record Bashaba, Betsebe, Bessabe, Bashebe, etc. Hubbard wrote : "They called the chief rulers, who commanded the

^''Formerly Shohakin or Chehocton." (French's Gaz.) In N. Y. Land Papers, Schohakana is the orthography. Street's translation is a poetical fancy. The name probably refers to a place at the mouth of the northwest or Mohawk Branch of the Delaware, and the northeast or Paghkataghan Branch, at Hancock, Del. Co.

were* Willemoc probably two streams in the stands town, for Wilamauk, one known "Good as the fishing-place." Beaver Kill and the There other as the IVilliwemack. In Cal. N. Y. Land Papers, 699, occurs the entry : "The Beaver Kill or Whitenaughwemack." The date is 1785. The orthography bears evidence of many years' corruption. It may have been shortened to Willewemock and Willernoc, and stand for IVilamochk, "Good, rich, beaver." It was, presumably, a superior resorl; for beavers. ^ Basha's Kill w^ts applied to Mamcotten Kill north of the village of Wurtzboro, south of which it retained the name of Mamacotten, as written on Sauthier's map.